lefsetz seems cool with first drafts, so i will be, too.

My head is full of useless information, useless in that it doesn’t pertain to anything dire to the inner or outer workings of my everyday life. I can completely get by and live a happy, full and (preferably) meaning existence without the ability to quote entire bits of Eddie Izzard’s “Dressed to Kill”…but I can do it. No one really cares about the conflict between classical guitar titans Andres Segovia and Agustin Barrios, but I’m still as fascinated with it today as I was when I first heard the two didn’t get along so swimmingly. I can dance around the social implications of guitar neck widths, how Kerouac’s contradictions fed his mystique and Debussy’s yin/yang nature, and I can virtually guarantee that no one else cares. No one signing paychecks in my future, anyway.

It’s this kind of information that means nothing and everything. It doesn’t indicate work aptitude or ___, but it does indicate a pulse. I’ve been thinking lately that if you’ve never been fascinated with anything in your life, truly and unapologetically fascinated, you are damn boring. If you wake up, do what you need to do, go to bed and repeat without variation you’re probably the same kind of person who claps on one and three, content to a bland bread and water existence devoid of any resonating color or tone.

You’re also probably terrible in bed.

And it’s entirely your own damn fault.

There’s no intrinsic human need to like anything. It’s not essential to our development as a species, but it is sort of really, really important to how we define ourselves. It may be nothing more than the facts and arguments we can spout off at a bar anytime past the witching hour, but it shows a sign of life. True, there’s a consequence of overdose (i.e. watch Zooey Deschanel in any movie), but even then it’s an overload of personality, and I’d rather be bombarded with a million different shades than suffer through the monotony of a static grey.

Be crazy. Be conflicted and complicated. It’s far more fun than boring.